Jag's point about mediation and recording devices is a good one.

How many 'takes' of a song have there been before the one selected as a 'keeper'? How much prior practice and discussion took place before a particular conversation was recorded and saved for posterity?

I have mentioned previously a PhD by a person called Ord. He looks at other ways in which folk is 'packaged' including background noises on tapes giving a effect of 'authenticity' when the whole recording situation is a highly non-authentic situation. You can look at the pictures on CD covers too. All of these send 'semiotic' messages about the content.

As for people being strong feminists, insults I perceived as sexist, including ones about Maggie Thatcher and handbags (linked with utterly mistaken accusations that I voted pro Brexit) were one of the reasons I unsubscribed from Mudcat.